My 52-Chapter Journey Through LukeActs

09/28/2013

"The Manager of Unrighteousness Redeems Himself"

Day #16 - Galilee: What strikes me today is Jesus makes a hero out of a squanderer. He exaults someone who's wasted vast amounts of wealth. This is real brain-sprainer.

Basically, Jesus was fed-up with wealthy self-justifying religious fundamentalists who were were in love with money, stingy and unwilling to lesson debt burdens on others.

Jesus brilliantly casts them as a villian-turned-hero in a story and shows how they can redeem themselves and get out of trouble. The religious leaders within earshot detested Jesus for exposing their affair with the God of Mammon and their involvment in systemic-evil.

Jesus, show me how to unhitch myself from my ongoing affair with the God of Money!

“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”